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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
2
Fifteen thousand depositors swarm the ruined Milwaukee Avenue State Bank in Chicago as Receiver Fetzer plans to pay 20 percent to five thousand of 22 000 depositors. Sixty officers struggle to restore order while crowds wave passbooks and shout in multiple languages.
Two more earthquake shocks struck Valparaiso and Santiago as a heavy rainstorm worsened fear. Authorities report at least 150 robbers shot to maintain order, 700 people buried in ruins, and lime chloride supplies exhausted amid rescue and disinfection efforts.
Professor Charles Frye former Chicago Normal School superintendent was arrested on a bigamy warrant filed by Mrs. Clara Goddard of Herley Dakota. He posted bonds and was released after custody. A separate railway collision near St Thomas Ontario killed CP Engineer McKay and seriously injured Fireman Patterson and baggageman Alex Wiley with no passenger injuries.
A funeral convoy on East 105th Street in Cleveland was struck by a southbound car. The crash damaged the lead carriage carrying an infant remains. Five mourners were hurt and Michael J. Lutheran was likely fatally injured.
Federal grand jury in Jamestown New York returned indictments against Standard Oil Company and New York Central Railroad Company charging one with giving and the other with accepting special rates in shipping oil from Olean New York to Burlington Vermont. Miss Josie Olson a downtown Chicago waitress leaped from a third story window to escape a man named Smith. She was taken to Chicago Emergency hospital with serious injuries.
A NYSE seat sold for 95000 dollars signaling a record price not seen since the market last hit that level. The sale matches a prior peak, indicating continued strong demand for exchange seats.
Robert S. Robertson a veteran soldier and leading Fort Wayne attorney died after several weeks illness. The direct cause of death was liver trouble.
Myriads of locusts devastate the Debrecen region in Hungary eating crops on about 60 000 acres. Fires steam rollers and other measures fail to stop the swarm as it crosses the Theiss and destroys standing corn leaving fields bare and farmers threatened with ruin.
Wheat growers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan urge older provinces for labor to harvest a record crop. Officials estimate the province must recruit about 20,000 additional men beyond those tending the crop, with agents in major cities directing arrivals to Winnipesaukee area grain centers. The surge reflects strong national prosperity and seasonal farm labor demand.
A Commerce and Labor bulletin reports U S trade with noncontiguous areas reached 119 804 511 in the fiscal year just ended. Shipments to Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico rose about 20 percent while Philippine shipments fell 750 000. Domestic shipments from these territories totaled 66 666 666 07, led by Hawaii. Gold moving from Alaska to the United States reached 12 500 000, with foreign gold at 7 500 000 sourced from Canadian mines via Alaska.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports 158 deaths and 5 508 injuries from Independence Day celebrations. Tetanus caused 75 deaths. toy pistol and blank cartridge injuries declined until this year, with 879 hurt by blank cartridges. Minor accidents mainly from fireworks left 22 blind, 72 permanently one-eyed, 56 with limb injuries, and 227 finger injuries.
Secretary of State Root addressed the Pan American Congress in Rio de Janeiro praising goodwill and cooperation among American nations. He denied territorial ambitions for the United States and endorsed peaceful victories and mutual concessions among republics. He highlighted the Hague world congress as formal acceptance that no part of the American continent is to be colonized. Soldiers May Shoot Lynch Mobs. Gov. Glenn of North Carolina ordered the state militia to fire on mobs without local sheriff permission, warning that mob participants are beyond the law.
Utah project secured 800 acres for an industrial farm through the women's labs. The plan adopts a cottage system to educate and care for children in a structured, communal setting.
Reports from Cuba describe a rising movement across Havana Santiago and Pinar del Rio with rebels in arms. General Gomez reportedly leads mutinies while Palma mobilizes 2000 rural guards and cabinets face crisis. The upheaval follows last year’s elections amid political turmoil and rumored US intervention. Meanwhile Delaware Channel dredging progresses with $750,000 state city funding.
Secretary Wilson pushes a sweeping reform demanding that from October first all meat leaving packing or slaughter houses bear a US inspected and passed label. The regulation guarantees cleanliness and sanitary slaughtering under tight government oversight. The measure covers ham beef bacon lard meat foods and all containers with meat as a component and applies to interstate shipment only after government stamping.
Postmaster Ramsay of Salisbury North Carolina refused to transmit postal cards showing the recent lynching. The ruling has been confirmed by the post office department in Washington and the cards will be confiscated.
An unprecedented labor shortage spans the Northwest from the head of the lakes to the Dakotas. Farmers offer only 2.50 to 3 dollars per day with board, supplying less than half the needed labor. Railroads, contractors, miners, and copper country workers face the same shortages.
A mosaic of international tensions and domestic upheaval appears in a string of sharp observations. References span Russia Britain the United States and corporate power with mentions of strikes assassinations and indictments shaping the era.
Reports show strikes and gains for workers from Boston to Cleveland and Chicago. They include eight hour day wins in Maine New York and Oregon style wage increases in Chicago and New Jersey, plus union stamps for shoes and a push for a labor temple in Cleveland.
Consul General Rublee reports a Hungarian chemist has created large fluid lenses between two hard glass surfaces. These lenses can be three times bigger, achromatic, and hermetically sealed. Production costs drop to one-fiftieth and manufacturing may take weeks.
A compact note lists 1633 suppression of plays by Puritans, the 1777 Drury Lane premiere of The School for Scandal on April 8, along with a forecast of Honduras pine lands fueling railroad growth and a tally of the British Thibet expedition cost at 4,063,750 dollars borne by India.
The article notes sustained progress in commerce with strong activity in pig iron, machinery, and distribution of goods. It cites rising bank deposits, larger bank clearings, and ample agricultural output boosting country stores, while railroads order more rails and rolling stock. Despite high activity, a rail traffic blockade emerges as crops move, with August earnings up 11.7 percent from last year and July imports reaching record levels.
A syndicated price list reports bids for cattle hogs sheep and grains in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Buffalo New York and Toledo. Highlights include Chicago cattle 4.00 to 6.50 hogs 4.00 to 6.15 sheep 3.00 to 4.50 wheat No 2 60s to 70s corn No 2 white 28 to 52 oats No 2 white 80 cents to 90c. Similar ranges appear in other cities with varied grades and unit terms.
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